Tomorrow's Friday!

I've been incredibly crabby lately. It could be a number of things:

-the weather going back and forth
-getting a little stir crazy
-girls on a random nap schedule
-missing work outs
-running out of Diet Coke
-missing friends
-missing Utah County

Anyway, because of whatever reason I've been yelling at my kids. I hate that. I never ever wanted to be the mother that yelled. So I'd yell, and feel awful, and I'd feel worse, and I'd yell some more, and it was just an awful downward spiral.

So yesterday I made a goal to go a month without yelling. Hopefully that will be enough time to make it a habit. I caught myself twice today, but so far so good.

I've been struggling here. I'm not sure what it is. I feel like people here are just overall busier. Real grown up life is MUCH different from student Provo life. My schedule has it so I'm busy with school at night, spend most of the weekend with Ross and the girls because I'm gone at night. The girls are on random nap schedules, so planning play dates is out. It's been really frustrating and it's been hard to make friends.

Today I decided that all of our children will probably be girls just so I have mandatory girl friends.

This morning I vetoed Aoife's morning nap and went straight to the gym to get my work out out of the way. I've missed the last couple days because I've been waiting on the girls' schedule. They both screamed and cried the whole way there and I felt like Mother of the Year. Once we were there, they were great, and I actually had the best work out I've had since we moved. (Thank you, endorphins.)

After we got a few groceries before heading home for nap time. I got to eat lunch by myself and stuffed myself with watermelon. When the girls woke up, I was shocked that it wasn't even 1:00 yet. I scooped them up and headed out to check out Hilldale Mall. I've been told a couple times that I needed to walk it and just check out the stores. Claire wasn't too keen on leaving, so I let her bring along her toy stroller and lamby. She ran all over pushing her stroller and had a blast.

We could have spent all day (and all our money) in Anthropology. That store always rekindles my inner crafty side. Hopefully I'll find a few DIY projects to keep my busy and spruce up the house. We spent the other half of our time in the toy store. We'll definitely be going back with Ross some time.

We finished the afternoon with dollar sundaes by the lake. We're right across the street from the lake, but we still hadn't made our way over there yet. I've been wanting to check it out and with the weather at 82 degrees, I couldn't have asked for a better day. I took off Claire's shoes so she could stick her toes in. She was really nervous about it at first and it took a lot of warming up to the idea, but soon she was trying to go in as far as she could and kept asking to sit in the water. Not my plan. Both girls ended up soaking their shorts. I held Aoife's hands so she could stand in the water. She kept buckling her knees and laughing in an attempt to sit in the water, too.

It was the perfect afternoon and just what I needed.

Perfect work out, fun afternoon date, and Diet Coke in my fridge. Hellllooooo weekend!! :]